davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
, 1887-12-03

withdrawn from Berlin if Schn@bele were
not given up mol was there any plan Of
mobilization, but General BOulanger, i'm
answer to his colleagues explained what
steps he intended to take in the event of
France being invaded by Germany. Such
is the strange eventual history which
is now told. 1t is rather appropriately
brought forward now that there is likely to
be a revival of interest in the, hero who
had to run away from his admirers IN all
engine.
Some outcry has been raised here Tin Parisl,
and diplomatic action is ever talked of, in
connection with a strange story of the sea
which is related by q DIR. Softer, OF the
French ship Menzaleh. This vessel, while
going from Shanghai to Japan, became
waterlogged, and the captain, M. Blanc,
made signals of distress. An English ship,
the Glenshiels Donaldson, master, hove in
sight and profered help. MI. Donaldson
is charged practically wi III having for
the sake of obtaining salvage money,
made M. Blanc hand him over his ship, at
the risk of being abandoned on the ocean,
The French captain agreed, and it is stated
that the English sailors, under the orders
Of Mr.. DOnaldson's first mate, boarded the
MenZaleh as If she were a derelict, and
laid their hands on every thing they could
find, even going SO far as to break open
the boxes of passengers. 1t is also limited
that the Menzaleh was designedly sunk and
the doctor adds that all the French persons
who were taken on board the GlenShiels
were treated With the utmost rudeness.
Such is the strange story which is now
going the rounds of the French press, and
it is to be hoped that further light may be
thrown on the subject.
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THE EAST.

ACCORDING to the official figures of the re-
cent election in Massachusetts Governor
Ames' plurality is II. COG and his majority
1886 The plurality for the Republican
State ticket averages about 24, 600
Four men We're killed and one wounded
by the cavlng-in of earth ON the 30th ult.
at the stone-quarry of Walton & Son, about
three miles from HunnelstOwn. Pa
JACOB SHARP, the New York bTiber, is out
of Jail under bonds of SO 900
The report that the Standard Oil Com
pany contemplated building a trunk pipe
line from Chicago TO New York was de-
clared to be unfOunded by Charles Pratt ON
the lst
ALoCoMoTTvE boiler exploded on the I'd
near East Mahanoy Junction, Pa, killing
four men
AT Springfield. Mass, the Kirkham & Ohm
stead block was Quilted by fire on the I'd.
Loss. 500 600
LEVI KELLER, aged sixty-three years and
his wife, aged sixty years. residing at Viz
ginsvilie. Pa, expired on the I'd within two
minutes OF each other. Keller, several
weeks ago. predicted that they would DO tn
die when they did
The statement that foreigners chiefly con-
trolIed the Massachusetts, fishery business is
disproved by statistics, which show that OF
the I5,435 people engaged 10000 are
Americans
ALGERNoN : SULLIVAN, a distinguished
New York lawyer, died on the 4th, aged
sixty years
The other night, Peter Bennett, 4 wealthy
farmer of Newport, Ne, was shot and Sc
verely beaten by burglars, who robbed
him of $50. 600 in bills and gold He was
distrustful of banks, and KEEP his money in
his house.
The official returns on the 9TH place the
plurality of Cook DeLL) at the recent
election for Secretary of State Of New York
~ Il or
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WEST AND SOUTH.


The season of lake Navigation Just closed
was unusually profitable to yessel-owners,
but very disastrous TO insurance companies
on account of the numerous heavy gales
TIE State Of Michigan is prosecuting
claims against the United States 10 recover
j.. 600. 600, said 10 be due from the sale of
swamp lands IL will also push claims
against several railroad companies TO re-
cover 1S0. 900 acres of land held by Con-
gressional grants
A COLoRED woman named Collins. who
was once servant OF General Jackson,
died recently in Nashville, Tenn, aged lis
years
A FEw days ago George Norman, OF New
London, No, died OF hydrophohia He
was hi ten by a small dog lass summer.
ARESsDoRF, the defendant in the HaddOck
murder trial at Sioux City, Ia, gave his
testimony on the 3Oth ult, denying com
Ilicitv in the crime He cOntradicted some
Of his statements at the former trial
RECENTLY q farmer named Irby shot and
killed two colored men who attacked him
on his farm in Marlboro County. $ C.
FIRE in the Strowbridge Lithograph
COmpanys establishment in ncinnati on
the 3Oth ult caused n loss of $500, 600
Nine business houses were recently
burned at Aiken. 5 G.
the recent election in OREGON on the pro
hibition amendment was concluded on the
LIST. showing that -. a73 votes were cast
for the amendment. p, a5S against; ma
joTity against prohibit on 7.9e1
A TRAMP named O'Br.en was taken from
the iail AZ AlamOsl. Col. on the 1st and
/ lynched for criminal assault upon a young
woman OF that city.
ON the evening OF the list the Prohibition
conference in Chicago closed with a mass
meeting at which Ex-Governor St John
named General Clinton b. Fiske. Of New
{ Jersey. as the Presidential candidate.
AT Cincinnati on the 1st a bronze statue
/ OF President GARFIELD wSs unvailed. the
militia and soldiers societies taking part in
/ the parade. Governor Foraker and Others
made addresses
AT BrookviIle, Kan. on the LIST. the law
renee Hotel. six business houses and three
/ dwellings were burned, and four men per-
/ iShed in the flames
An excursion Of about $50 Scandinavians
/ from the Northwest en- route 70 the old
1 country. stopped in Chicago on the 1st
THE big g-s wells N the northwestern
part of Ohio were. il was reported on the
/ LIST losing their pressure and turning 70 oil
[ wells The news created CONSERVATION al
Toledo. where natural gas Is largely used
fOl heating purposes
FoRr Smith ARK adyices OF the LIST say
that within four days seven murders had
been committed in the chocktaw nation
Two YOUNG men named Daniel Mcclellan
and d. ]. Jones. of Straubville. d T.. were
sufocsted by coal gas on the 1st
WHrLE chopping wood near Paris. Tex,
on the lat Clark and Noses Harrison
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

OK the 3Oth ult a Killarney newsdealer
was sentenced 10 one months Imprisonment
for selling copies of United ireland contain
ing reports of prohibited meetings of the
National League
THIRTEEN workmen We're killed on the
Both uIt in a colliery at Poremba, Silesia.
by choke damp and many Others were taken
out of the shaft insensible, but were resus-
citated
MIR. SEXTON was on the LIST elected Mr.
Sulliyan's successor as Lord Mayor of Dub
lin
Az earthquake shock was felt on the LIST
in the County of Lancashire, Eng
For printing reports of suppressed
branches of the National League in his
paper, Lord Mayor Sullivan, of Dublin, was
on the I'd sentenced to two months i'm
prisonment.
President GREvY. of France. rendered
his resignation on the I'd because of the
hostile attitude assumed by the Deputies and
Senators toward him, which made 1t plain
that he could hold office no longer
Oh the 2d Beach, The Australian oarsman
resigned the championship and retired from
aquatics
AT Besignane, Italy. an earthquake oc-
cured on the 3D. which destroyed the place
and killed twenty persons.
Rev DANIEL McGETTIGAN, Roman Catho-
lie Archbishop of the diocese of Armagh and
Prim.te of Ireland, died on the Sd
OK the Sd the Congress of the Senators
and Deputies at Versailles, France, elected
NJ Sadi-Carnot 10 succeed President Grevy
The successful candidate is a Republican who
has been prominent in politics ever since
the downfall of Louis Napoleon.
FIRE recently in Shotow, China, de-
stroyed eight hundred houses, causing loss
of about 500, 900
NJ GAyARD, a radical of Geneva, has been
elected President of Switzerland
AT Northampton, Eng, factories on the
9TH inaugurated great lockout, and work
men TO the number of fifteen thousand
were thrown out of employment
ORDERS were given ON the 9TH to Austrian
and Hungarian subjects residing in Russian
provinces to leave the country before jan
nary z
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LATER.

IT took forty minutee to read the Presi-
dents message.
NEW HAVEN. Conn, on the 9th, gave 1000
majority in favor of saloon license.
A PILE of $4,000 tons of coal, belonging TO
the Grand Trunk II. r., was destroyed by
fire on the 6th, at Point Edward, Ont.
FOUR men were killed on the 9th, at
Townsville, Ga, by the collapse or wa
ter tower, and four others seriously injured,
one OF whom at least cannot live.
AMOS ALLEN, a farmer living near
hanging. Business trouble and grief over
the sickness of his wife are the attributed
causes
THE Minneapolis delegation TO ask for the
National convention arrive in Washington
and ascertain that Cincinnati, st. Louis
and Omaha will support Minneapolis as
against Chicago.
Ar Ringhampton, n. ", Tuesday night,
the house of Geo. J West, retired mer-
chant, took fire and burned, and Mr.. West,
tged - years. sleeping alone in the house
was burned TO death.
e. A. r. Commander-in-Chief Rea, is
visiting important parts in the country and
at Chicago, ILL.,, and Columbus, Ohio, was
IN the occasion of his first visit, given most
Enthusiastic receptions
THE Mormon poeteSs, Eliza r. Snow,
died at Salt Lake City, Utah, on the 9Th,
tged 81 Sc was the plural wife OF Joe
smith, at Nauvoo, and was one OF the
central figures of the church.
THE United Statutes marshal Of Idaho
arrived at Sioux Fails, OAK, Sunday with
i've Mormon prisoners for the penitentiary.
These prisoners We're convicted OF polygamy
md sentenced for three years.
AT Minneapolis. on Tuesday, Thos. B.
Franklin held for forgery made his second
attempt to break Jail. but his movements
were discovered by the vigiant turnkey,
and he was placed in a cell for safe keeping.
THE Secretary OF the Interior has
approved as a basis for patents two lists OF
indemnity lands selected by the Wisconsin
Central Railroad company IN the Eau
Claire and Wausau land districts, embrac-
ing IS, 80 acres.
attempted rape upon Mary Sylvester. two
months ago at Minneapolis began on
Tuesday at Buffalo, Wright Co, before
Judge Hicks and a jury. Miss sylvester
has not fully recovered from her frlghtful
| leap for honor. and soon after coming into
court tainted from ex ltement and nervous
prostrs ton, largely induced by the sight OF
her brutal assailant.
The following important nominations
were sent 70 the Senate on Tuesday by the
President: Lncins .. c. Lamar, OF Mississ-
tippi 10 he associate justice OF the supreme
court Of the United States VII lam +
Eiias of Wisconsin. to e secretary Of the
/ interior. Don n Dickinson. of Michigan,
TO be postmaster-ge general Charles ;. Fair
child, of New York TO be secretary OF the
| treasury George L. Rivers Of New York,
TO he assistant secretary OF state. Isaac
/ Il Maynard, OF New York. 70 be assistant
secretary OF the treasury. Sigourney
Butler. Massachusetts, 70 be second comp
troIler Of the treasury. James W. Hyatt
Of Connecticut, 70 be treasurer OF the Uni
ted States
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NEWSY PARAGRAPHS.
Happenings in the Northwestern
States and Territories.
ILLINOIS.

A fire at Mound City, Pulaski County, de-
stroyed thirty-iive buildings, including two
hotels, the mayors residence, the Patriot
office and three dry-good stores The loss
lie estimated at 100000.
George NJ Kay, a merchant of Godfrey,
Madison County, has been arraigned in the
United States District Court at Springfield
for distributing obscene literature He was
bound over in the sum of 81, 600 for his APP
pearance at the January term OF court
The strongest flow of natural gas found
in the State was struck by the Iitchfeld
Natural Gas & Oil Company recently. The
pressure was nearly five hundred pounds to
the square inch and so powerful that it could
not be controlled by the methods hereto
fore used in the wells
Mrs Henry Blomdale, the wife of a
farmer near Dennison, and negro named
Davidson. who was working on the farm,
disappeared few days ago The woman
Is well connected Her strange action
could not be accounted for She left three
small children
The site for the military post at High
wood, which consists of 632 acres, has been
formally accepted by the War Department
Fire kindled by mice among matches
spilled upon the kitchen mantel destroyed
the house of Tom Murray, near Champaign,
the other night Loss, 5000; no insur-
Rnce
Late the other night John Erickson,
Rockford painter, crept up beside William
Johnson, who was in his barn, and struck
him two heavy blows on the head with a
jack-plane and then robbed him of 5000
John Peters, "the giant policeman, died
in Chicago few days ago of typhoid fever
Peters was but twenty-one years Old and the
tallest man of his age in the world, his size
having been seven feet four inches He
came from Norway year ago.
Milk sickness prevails among the cattle in
portions of Cass County Several persons
were lying dangerously i'll from using milk
or beef that was tainted
Frank Morgan, a drunkard, was recently
arrested at Shelbyvitle, charged with beat
ing his wife until her recovery was doubt
full The woman has several small chill
dren
Richard Ion, Chicago teamster, was
caught between the pole of his wagon and
the dashboard of street-car the other day,
and the pole struck him in the chest and
crushed his ribs over the heart, killing him
instantly.
AT Rock Island the other day the Central
Presbyterian Church celebrated its semi
centennial with appropriate services
A Law and Order League which has been
formed at Atwood is making 1t decidedly
unpleasant for gang of tough citizens with
which the town has been infested of late
A post-office has been established at Sem
mary, Fayette County. The Fruit Land Of
fee has been discontinued.
Charles Young, wealthy farmer of YER
million County, owning twenty-six different
farms, had his safe blown open and robbed
of $4,000 recently. Detectives have dis
covered that his grandson, whom he had
raised from infancy, commit the robbery
The money was all recovered
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A PLEASANT VOICE.
According to EIihu Burnett IL II a Light
That Sings as Well as Shines

according to Elthu Burnett II II Light
That Sings as Well as shines.
When one is born with an uncom-
Portable voice it requires so much
watching and training that very often
you give up the task and declare it
hopeless. One of the greatest diff
culties is TO find out how your own
voice really does sound. Sometimes
people go through life without ever
knowing that they have dreadful
voices. Ones friends never care to
volunteer unpleasant information. and
even your bitterest enemy doesn't take
the opportunity of flinging this par
ticular disagreeable truth in your face.
The writer recalls . friend, lady
over fifty, whom she has known
since childhood, and whose voice
is Of that peculiar ear-piercing
quality that penetrates the aural nerve
like the friction of steel upon steel. It
commences pretty high up in the
gamut, and keeps on ascending until
if she happens to be very much in
earnest-it invariably ends in the
steeliest upper note. like the ping" OF
the highest violin string. She is good
friend, and a noble-hearted, considers
tious Christian woman, but after one
hour Of her you are even willing to
trade her off for real bad. wicked
little wretch with soothing voice.
The first thing to consider is tie
necessity of having a kind voice. A
kind voice is always a sweet one 1t
allays irritation and soothes one down
sometimes quite as effectively as the
touch of a soft. cool hand. Elihu Bur-
rift once said: Watch it day by day
as pearl of great price. for it will be
worth more to you in the days to come
than the best pearl hid in the sea A
kind voice is to the heart what light
is 10 the eye. It is light that sings
"a well as shines.
There certainly is much more atten-
ton being paid to this branch of
culture than ever before. How quick
" we can tell cultivated voice even
at the end of telephone wire. It is
soft, velvety in quality. and is undu-
lated so as to embrace a variety Of
tones. OF course the telephone is not
always a test, because a short woman
usually has to stand on her tiptoes and
screech in order to be heard at eli.
But doubtless one. by simply putting
her ear 10 a keyhole. could tell in a
few moments the social caliber and
degree Of cultivation of a whole COM
pany of people without seeing them at
all, 90 much is there in a voice Cen
orally an unframed voice goes with an
unframed intellect and passions If
an individual has perseverance and
character enough for one she will have
for the other.
But where" says my lady. 'iieg
the remedy. if one is never to know
how her own voice sounds9'
Try first asking your friends. if you
can pitch upon one with the courage
Of his convictions. II you can not, or
you distrust the verdict after it is Civ
en-. go to a good elocntionist and pay
him to tell you the truth. If you know
your bad points. you can probably
remedy them yourself If you can not,
then any thing which viii help you to
tone down a high voice. deepen
a nasal one. or soften gruff intona-
tion. will be wellspent labor and
money. Detroit Tribune.
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A Bay City man is about TO establish a
carriage fac DRY at Lansing that will give
employment to twenty-five men
In ogemaw County the other day two
timber wolves, each measuring four feet in
length, were shot and killed by farmer
and his son
A couple of Mormon elders who have been
proselyting in the vicinity of Woodland
Barry County were obliged to make flying
exeunt the other day to avoid contact with
certain kettle of tar that was boiling for
taem.
Hazelton's saw, stave and head mill in
New Haven was burned the other day Loss,
$40, no insurance.
recent collision on the Lake Shore road
at Grosvenor resulted in the injury of five
employees
Charles Simmonds, aged seventy-eight
years, OF Richmond, was found dead in his
yard recently, where he had fallen while
his wife was absent attending funeral
Several Birmingham boys went out
shooting recently, and one of them, Bert
Collier, was asked to shoot a gun which
had been purposely overloaded The
weapon exploded, and Collier received in
juries which would probably prove fatal.
His companions deserted him, and it was
three hours before he was discovered
l. K Shaw, farmer near Romeo, sold
wheat and received 5000 the other day
He did not reach home, and a search found
his horse and buggy hitched TO fence near
piece of woods and his dead body in the
woods
John Feeny was convicted at Detroit re-
Gently of cutting and carrying away timber
from the Indian reservation in Isabella
County.
Marshall hogs are suffering greatly from
the ravages of hog cholera
The store of George l. Clapp, at Glenn,
Ottawa County, was burned a few days ago,
evidently Having been fired by burg
lars, as the door of the safe had been
broken open. Loss, $4,000
Judge G. G. Fuller, of Big Rapids, brought
a $40, 900 libel suit against the Hera of
that place for alleged defamatory state
ments The case was heard recently and
was thrown out, it being decided there was
no cause for action.
". d. Robinson, a shoe-dealer at Detroit,
doing business under the name of W. D.
Robinson q Co., has failed for 500, 600
August Gunther, an employee of the Ham
cock chemical works, undertook recently
to drive a nail into a scantling saturated
with nitro-glycerine The result was an
explosion which fatally hurt Gunther.
John W. Brooks, manager of the Detroit
Corset Company, in cleaning out his valise
recently threw on the floor some poisonous
pills taken by him while suffering from neH-
ralgia After Mr.. Brooks left the house his
eighteen months-old child found and ate
the pills and died soon afterwards.
Two fishermen named Nelson and Jewell
were lost recently in storm near Cheboy-
gan.
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THE Government experiments this
yeer in making sugar from sorghum are
said 10 have been very successful. On
fair soil the yield Of cane was an aver
age Of twelve tons. The average yield
Of sugar per acre was about 1900
pounds and of syrup $50 gallons. 1t is
claimed that at this rate, even At the
present low price of sugar. the bust
ness Of making sugar from sorghum
would be verv profitable.
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The News Condensed.
Important intelligence From All Parts.
FIFTIETH CONGRESS,

MONDAY, Dec. 5-The Fiftieth Congress
assembled az noon In the Senate Mr. ingalls,,
Of Kansas, presided No objection was made
TO tie admission of Mr. Turpie, of Indiana,
buG Mr. Faulkner, Of West Virginia, would
not be perm tied to take his seat until GER
tain questions were settled concerning the
validity OF his election. In the House Mr..
Carlisle, of Kentucky, was reelected Speak
er, the vote, which indicates the relative
strength of the two parties. standing:
Carlisle 1853; Reed of Maine), las. Both
houses appointed committees TO notify the
President OF their organization, and then
adjourned for the day
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CHEF-JU>TICE WAITE and Justices
Miller and Field. Of the Supreme Court.
were all born in 1916. Justice Brad
ley is the oldest man on the bench. be-
ing seventy-four. and Justice Harlan Is
the youngest, being only fifty-four.
Justices Waite. Bradley. Miller and
Field are all above the age at which
they may retire from the bench at full
nav for life.
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A STURDY three-year-old walked halt
n mile from his home in Middleton,
Comm. to the depot. and crawled on
the rear platform of a train just about
to start. He was found by a brake
man sitting. bqreheaded and happy.
on the platform. with his fat legs dang
ling of as the train whizzed along to-
ward Saybrook. The conductor put
him of at Higganum. and he was re-
turned to Middletown and his frantic
moi haF-
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UrNRy Warn RrrCuFp

HENRY WARD BEECHER. when he
was last in England. heard Rev
Charles A. Berry make speech and
afterward said of him: If l am not
mistaken that young man will be heard
from some day. He has the right stuff
in him. " Now Mr.. Berry is to be the
future pastor Of Mr.. Beecher's church.
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Prince BISMARCK. on the twenty
fifth anniversary Of his ChancellOrship.
received a writing-desk made from
cannon balls On accepting the
anomalous present. he exclaimed:
God grant that cannon balls may al
WAYS he as peacefullv emploYedr'
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QUEEN VICTORIA has issued an order
that the Jubilee medal. of which about
thousand have been given away. is
TO rank above all war medals. and il
is always to be worn on those full
dress occasions when ordinary medals
are dc ri1llcllr.
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COLONEL WILLIAMS. in his history
OF the negro troops in the rebellion,
SAYS there were 1883 Of the black
soldiers enrolled in the volunteer army
of the United States. and of this num-
Der Sc. S77 died in the service Of their
rguut-v
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HENRY BLANC. who lived near
Parkersburg. Va. was drowned by the
recent wreck Of the steamer Scholten.
He had gone 10 Amsterdam. Holland
where a short time ago 4 relative died
leaving him large estate. At diff
fercnt times Blanc had crossed the
ocean 20 receive installments Of his
fortune. and a few weeks ago he went
again 20 receive the last and largest
portion. He had written home that he
had been successful. and it is thought
he hal the money with him when the
vessel went down. He expected when
lie left to return with $4,000.